Social Theory

Picture	Name	Contact
	Joshua Abboud Assistant Professor New and Emerging Media, Visual Rhetorics, Image Theory, Ethics, Analog and Digital Technologies	j.abboud@uky.edu 1307 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-8337
	M. Cristina Alcalde Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization, College of Arts & Sciences, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies , Marie Rich Endowed Professor gender violence, 'Migration', Latin America, race and racialization, intersectionality, Critical Social Theory, masculinities, return migration, motherhood, exclusion and belonging, Latinxs in the U.S.	cristina.alcalde@uky.edu 212 Breckinridge Hall 859-257-9719
	Jonathan Allison Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature and Culture	jalliso@uky.edu 1323 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6961
	Rusty Barrett Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics Linguistics	erbarr2@email.uky.edu 1673 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-3114
	Srimati Basu Professor, Gender and Women's Studies Law, Marriage, Social Theory, kinship, gender violence	srimati.basu@uky.edu 214 Breckinridge Hall 859-257-4372
	Betsy A. Beymer-Farris Assistant Professor, Director, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Visiting Associate Professor II, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences Political Ecology, political economy, Commodity Chains and Networks, Food & Environment, East Africa, tropical ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Change, livelihoods, gender, Environmental conservation, development	bbeymer-farris@uky.edu 849 Patterson Office Tower +1-859-257-5194
	Stefan Bird-Pollan Associate Professor Ethics: contemporary meta-ethics and the history of ethics, Political Philosophy: contemporary debates and history, 17th Century to the present., Aesthetics, Kant, Hegel	sbi223 1421 Patterson Office Tower
	Molly Thomasy Blasing Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Russian Literature, Modern Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Visual Culture, Language Pedagogy, Photography, Theater and Performance studies, Film, Digital Humanities, Social Theory, Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, 20th Century Poetry	mtblasing@uky.edu 1053 Patterson Office Tower (859) 218-5337
	Francie Chassen-Lopez Professor Postcolonial Mexico; Latin American culture and society; gender history	frclopz@email.uky.edu 1771 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-4344
	Lisa Cliggett Professor of Anthropology and Chair (of Anthropology, not AAAS), Past Editor (2011-2015), Economic Anthropology (Wiley Blackwell Journal) Political Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Change, Household Political Economy, Kinship-Family and Social Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia, Gwembe Tonga Research Project, Qualitative Methods, Digital Data Management, gender, aging and life course, livelihoods, Migration and New Land Settlement, Politcal Economy	lisa.cliggett@uky.edu 204 Lafferty Hall 859 257-2796
	Jeremy W. Crampton Professor of Geography, Director, Committee on Social Theory Critical cartography & GIS, Geographical intelligence, Geoweb and new spatial media, geosurveillance, history of geographic thought, Michel Foucault, New Maps	jcrampton@uky.edu 867 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-4377
	Anastasia Curwood Associate Professor, Director, African American & Africana Studies African-American History since 1865, Women's and Gender History, Family History, Biography	a.curwood@uky.edu 1715 Patterson Office Tower, 102 Breckinridge Hall 859-257-6857, 859-257-2284
	Steve Davis Associate Professor South African history; microhistory; public history	steve.davis@uky.edu 1749 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-1404
	Mónica Díaz Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History, Director of International Studies Indigenous peoples and religion, Race, Coloniality, Visual studies, Women's writings, Gender and ethnic identity, Cultural studies	monica.diaz@uky.edu 1159 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-5756
	Andy Doolen Professor Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, African American Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies, U.S. American Studies	andy.doolen@uky.edu 1337 Patterson Office Tower 257-1488
	Patricia Ehrkamp Professor, Chair of the Geography Department immigration, citizenship, political, urban, and feminist geographies, United States, Europe, Refugees, transnationalism, Feminist Geopolitics	p.ehrkamp@uky.edu 815 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6952
	Daniel Frese Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature Hebrew Bible, Ancient Israel	daniel.frese@uky.edu 1469 Patterson Office Tower (859) 218-3723
	Atsushi Hasegawa Assistant Professor, Japan Studies, President, Kentucky Association of Japanese Language Teachers (KAJLT) Applied Linguistics, Conversation Analysis (CA), Social Network Analysis, Study Abroad, L2 Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition (SLA)	ahasegawa@uky.edu 1467 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6035
	Pearl James Associate Professor Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture, Film, Women's Literature and Gender Studies	pearl.james@uky.edu 1227 Patterson Office Tower 257-6978
	Peter Kalliney William J. Tuggle Chair in English, Associate Chair of English Department Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature and Culture, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture	pjkall2@uky.edu 1261 Patterson Office Tower 257-6964
	Liang Luo Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, Faculty Director, International Village Living and Learning Program Theater and Performance studies, Propaganda, Sino-Japanese cultural relations, Film Studies, Chinese language and culture, Korean language and culture, Gender Politics, intersectionality, Folklore, Popular Culture, 20th Century Music and Literature, the international avant-garde	liang.luo@uky.edu 1453 Patterson Office Tower (physical address), 1055 Patterson Office Tower (mailing address) 859-257-9139, 859-257-3743 (fax)
	Carmen Martinez Novo Associate Professor Latin America, Race, ethnicity, International Political Economy	carmen.martinez@uky.edu 203 C Lafferty Hall 859-2572684
	Carol Mason Professor and Chair, Gender and Women's Studies, Affiliate faculty, Department of English, American Studies Program, and Appalachian Studies 20th-century American culture and literature, critical studies of whiteness, race and reproduction, theories of gender and sexuality, Social Movements	carol.mason@uky.edu 213 Breckinridge Hall 859-257-1788
	Kristin V. Monroe Associate Professor urban anthropology, mobility and migration studies, political anthropology, anthropology of space and place, Middle East Anthropology	kristin.monroe@uky.edu 203D Lafferty Hall 859-257-5390
	Tad Mutersbaugh Professor of Geography Product certification--Organic, fairtrade, biodiversity, Political Ecology, political economy, Commodity Chains and Networks, Latin America (with emphasis on Mexico and Central America), Agrarian Studies, Marxist Cultural and Social Theory	tmute2 871 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-1316
	Joseph O'Neil Associate Professor, German Studies, Program director, M.A. in German Studies European literature and culture around 1800, 20th century political theory, Kant and post-Kantian German Idealism, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Romanticism	joseph.oneil@uky.edu 1013 Patterson Office Tower (1) 859-257-5283
	Jeffrey N. Peters Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Director, Undergraduate Certificate in International Film Studies Early modern literature and culture, literary and critical theory, poetics and rhetoric, representations of space in literature, masculinity and gender studies, film studies	jnp@uky.edu 1031 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-3761
	Jeremy D Popkin Professor, William T. Bryan Chair Professorship	popkin@uky.edu 1725 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1415
	Suzanne R. Pucci Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Italian Studies Enlightenment Literature and culture, Intimacy in early modern France, Theater and Performance studies, Commedia dell'arte	suzanne.pucci@uky.edu 1027 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1066
	Claire M. Renzetti Professor of Sociology, Department Chair, College Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women Criminology and the Sociology of Law; Sociology of Gender; Marriage, families and intimate relationships; Social Movements	claire.renzetti@uky.edu 1501 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-6424
	Sue Roberts Associate Provost for Internationalization, Professor of Geography Economic Geography, Political Geography, development studies	sueroberts@uky.edu 115 Bradley Hall, 803 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257 4611, (859) 257-2399
	Marion Rust Professor of English, Co-Editor for Reviews, Early American Literature Early American Literature and Culture, Personal Narrative and Academic Discourse, Women and Gender Studies	marion.rust@uky.edu 1233 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-7008
	Ted Schatzki Professor Theory of Social Life, Social Ontology, Theory of Action, Philosophy of Social Science, 20th-Century Continental Philosophy	schatzki@uky.edu 867 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-5822
	Richard H. Schein Associate Dean of Faculty, Arts and Sciences, Professor of Geography Cultural and historical geography, US Urban Landscapes, Land and Property, Race, Racialization, Racism, Methodology (archives, Landscape as method)	schein@uky.edu 257 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-2119
	Anna Secor Professor of Geography , Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor Political Geography, gender, Social Theory, Middle East, Psychoanalysis, Refugees, Religion, Trauma Literature and Trauma Studies, Deleuze, cultural geography, Islamic Studies, Islam	ajseco2@uky.edu 863 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-1362
	Emily Shortslef Assistant Professor Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture, Literary and intellectual history, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, early modern drama, Shakespeare	emily.shortslef@uky.edu 1219 Patterson Office Tower
	Michelle Sizemore Associate Professor Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Literary Theory	michelle.sizemore@uky.edu 1259 Patterson Office Tower
	Karen Tice Professor, Gender and Women's Studies	karen.tice@uky.edu 211 Breckinridge Hall (859) 257-7976
	Michael Trask Guy M. Davenport Professor in English Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture, Women's Literature and Gender Studies	matras2 1263 Patterson Office Tower 257-1313
	Awet T. Weldemichael Assistant Professor Contemporary North/East Africa and island Southeast Asia	awet.tewelde@uky.edu 1739 Patterson Office Tower +1859.257.3675

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